A Lost Hiroshima Memoir Finds Hope Amid the Ruins
Kiyoshi Tanimoto, among those whose stories The New Yorker chronicled in 1946, fully recounts the devastation of the first city targeted in nuclear warfare.
By DAVID HIROSHI JAGER
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Mr. Jager is an arts and culture writer. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Toronto. He also writes screenplays and rock musicals.
Kiyoshi Tanimoto, among those whose stories The New Yorker chronicled in 1946, fully recounts the devastation of the first city targeted in nuclear warfare.
By DAVID HIROSHI JAGER
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Daniel Root vividly juxtaposes photographs of downtown Manhattan taken four decades ago with images of the same locations today, vizualizing the past through the lens of the present.
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A new anthology reinforces Uncle Sam isn’t merely great because it is already something, but because it is always becoming something greater.
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The late British‑Mexican artist shared Hieronymus Bosch’s gift for conjuring figures of such sublime weirdness that the viewer is rendered speechless.
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Guided by 1960s artistic sensibilities, a dreadlocked street artist becomes an observant Jew.
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A new exhibition chronicles in comprehensive detail how fortune-telling cards impacted upon popular culture and sublime bohemian lunacy.
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The Yorkshire painter demonstrated the virtues of a maverick spirit, zeal for life, and multidisciplinary creativity.
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Modest and somewhat reclusive, a new Luhring Augustine exhibition makes a compelling case that the figurative artist was one of the best British 20th century painters.
By DAVID HIROSHI JAGER
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A new revival of the 1973 camp classic solidifies its cultural establishment status as its once-daring transgressive sexuality now feels routine.
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Rather like one of her trademark spiders, Louise Bourgeois’s artistic legacy was compelling and forbidding in equal measure.
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The museum reopens with an exhibition that explores technological unrest, but its own future looks assured.
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Like the original novel, the opera, opening Sunday, pays homage to the postwar fascination with superheroes that transcend the shortcomings of fate and circumstance.
By DAVID HIROSHI JAGER
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